Arcelia Ramírez

Arcelia Ramírez

Born 1967-12-07 (age 58) Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
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Biography

Arcelia Ramírez (born 7 December 1967) is a Mexican actress who appeared in over 50 films and television shows since 1985. At a young age she became interested in acting. She studied acting at the Centro Universitario de Teatro (CUT), from where she was prepared for several plays produced by the same institution, including La pasión de Pentesilea, La séptima morada, La noche de Hernán Cortés, Las mujeres sabias, Freda y otras griegas and Relaciones peligrosas. She lived in France from 2007 to 2011, a period in which she kept up her work pace, coming to Mexico to film movies as diverse as Arturo Ripstein's "Las razones del corazón" and Victor Avelar's "Cómo no te voy a querer". Meanwhile, her life in Paris was like that of a nameless woman who was beginning to raise a family.

Throughout her career, which began in 1985 with the film "El centro del laberinto", she has been nominated for important awards, such as the Ariel, at the Cannes Festival, at the Havana Festival, at the Latin American Film Festival in Lérida, among others. She has been nominated four times for the Ariel Award, twice for Best Actress (1997, 2000) and twice for Best Supporting Actress (2001 and 2003).

The first actress attended the Cannes Film Festival 2021 for her performance in the film "La civil", first fiction of the Belgian-Romanian director Teodora Mihai. In the film she plays Cielo, a mother searching for her daughter kidnapped by organized crime in northern Mexico. After the screening on July 10 at the Debussy Hall, Ramirez received an eight-minute standing ovation from the audience. An unprecedented and almost unbelievable experience for Arcelia Ramírez, she explained, so much so that it marked her life and brought tears to her eyes.

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Known For

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Like Water for Chocolate
Veronica
Veronica

2017

as The Psychologist

Rain
Rain

2025

as Sofia

I Carry You with Me
I Carry You with Me

2021

as Magda

Potosí
Potosí

2013

as Estela

Reclusorio III
Crocodiles
Crocodiles

2024

as Elena

La Civil
La Civil

2021

as Cielo

Leftie
Leftie

2003

as Martina

Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You
Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You

2001

as Alicia, madre de Miriam

A Breakfast Chronicle
A Breakfast Chronicle

2000

as Yolanda

Some Ruins
Some Ruins

2019

as Ofelia

Ultima llamada
All the Silence
All the Silence

2023

as Claudia

(No sé) Cómo ser
(No sé) Cómo ser

2025

as Vivián

Journey
Journey

2023

as Petra

Las Horas Contigo
Las Horas Contigo

2015

as Isabel